Matthew 5:13

World English Bible (2000)

"You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its flavor, with what will it be salted? It is then good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under the feet of men.

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  • Col 4:6 : 6 Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.
  • Luke 14:34-35 : 34 Salt is good, but if the salt becomes flat and tasteless, with what do you season it? 35 It is fit neither for the soil nor for the manure pile. It is thrown out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear."
  • Lev 2:13 : 13 Every offering of your meal offering you shall season with salt; neither shall you allow the salt of the covenant of your God to be lacking from your meal offering. With all your offerings you shall offer salt.
  • Mark 9:49-50 : 49 For everyone will be salted with fire, and every sacrifice will be seasoned with salt. 50 Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, with what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another."
  • Heb 6:4-6 : 4 For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit, 5 and tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the age to come, 6 and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance; seeing they crucify the Son of God for themselves again, and put him to open shame.
  • 2 Pet 2:20-21 : 20 For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first. 21 For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.

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  • Luke 14:33-35
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    33 So therefore whoever of you who doesn't renounce all that he has, he can't be my disciple.

    34 Salt is good, but if the salt becomes flat and tasteless, with what do you season it?

    35 It is fit neither for the soil nor for the manure pile. It is thrown out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear."

  • Matt 5:14-16
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    84%

    14 You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill can't be hidden.

    15 Neither do you light a lamp, and put it under a measuring basket, but on a stand; and it shines to all who are in the house.

    16 Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

  • Mark 9:49-50
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    49 For everyone will be salted with fire, and every sacrifice will be seasoned with salt.

    50 Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, with what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another."

  • Matt 5:10-12
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    10 Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

    11 "Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

    12 Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

  • Luke 9:5
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    5 As many as don't receive you, when you depart from that city, shake off even the dust from your feet for a testimony against them."

  • Matt 10:14-15
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    14 Whoever doesn't receive you, nor hear your words, as you go out of that house or that city, shake off the dust from your feet.

    15 Most certainly I tell you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city.

  • Matt 7:6
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    6 "Don't give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.

  • Mark 13:13
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    13 You will be hated by all men for my name's sake, but he who endures to the end, the same will be saved.

  • Matt 13:42-44
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    42 and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be weeping and the gnashing of teeth.

    43 Then the righteous will shine forth like the sun in the Kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.

    44 "Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure hidden in the field, which a man found, and hid. In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field.

  • Mark 13:9-10
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    9 But watch yourselves, for they will deliver you up to councils. You will be beaten in synagogues. You will stand before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them.

    10 The Good News must first be preached to all the nations.

  • Luke 6:22-23
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    22 Blessed are you when men shall hate you, and when they shall exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man's sake.

    23 Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven, for their fathers did the same thing to the prophets.

  • Matt 5:5
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    5 Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.

  • Luke 9:25
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    25 For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits his own self?

  • Matt 25:30
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    30 Throw out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'

  • John 15:19-20
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    19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

    20 Remember the word that I said to you: 'A servant is not greater than his lord.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will keep yours also.

  • Phil 2:15
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    15 that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

  • Mark 4:21
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    21 He said to them, "Is the lamp brought to be put under a basket or under a bed? Isn't it put on a stand?

  • Luke 11:33
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    33 "No one, when he has lit a lamp, puts it in a cellar or under a basket, but on a stand, that those who come in may see the light.

  • Matt 13:50
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    50 and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth."

  • Matt 10:22-23
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    22 You will be hated by all men for my name's sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

    23 But when they persecute you in this city, flee into the next, for most certainly I tell you, you will not have gone through the cities of Israel, until the Son of Man has come.

  • Matt 8:12
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    12 but the children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."

  • Mark 6:11
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    11 Whoever will not receive you nor hear you, as you depart from there, shake off the dust that is under your feet for a testimony against them. Assuredly, I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city!"

  • Lev 2:13
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    13 Every offering of your meal offering you shall season with salt; neither shall you allow the salt of the covenant of your God to be lacking from your meal offering. With all your offerings you shall offer salt.

  • Matt 16:25-26
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    25 For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it.

    26 For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

  • Matt 10:18
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    18 Yes, and you will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the nations.

  • Mark 8:35
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    35 For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; and whoever will lose his life for my sake and the sake of the Good News will save it.

  • Matt 6:23
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    23 But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

  • Matt 5:48
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    48 Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

  • Luke 10:15
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    15 You, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, will be brought down to Hades.

  • Matt 13:5
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    5 Others fell on rocky ground, where they didn't have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of earth.

  • Matt 10:27
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    27 What I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light; and what you hear whispered in the ear, proclaim on the housetops.

  • Col 4:6
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    6 Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

  • Matt 5:19-20
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    19 Whoever, therefore, shall break one of these least commandments, and teach others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever shall do and teach them shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.

    20 For I tell you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, there is no way you will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

  • Luke 13:28
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    28 There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets, in the Kingdom of God, and yourselves being thrown outside.